empathyeducates – Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader

empathyeducates – Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader:

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Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader

By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. January 8, 2014

The new Common Core and related tests are likely to continue a three-decade pattern of traditional schooling either integrating the new standards and tests into the existing structure of schools or using the new standards and tests to justify existing practices. And thus, I offer a reader below, highlighting a demonstrable set of interrelated problems with U.S. public schools and higher education—inequitable discipline, retention, and other school-based dynamics disproportionately impacting African American males negatively and college graduation inequity for AA male athletes:

• Revealing New Truths About Our Nation’s Schools (Office of Civil Rights, USDOE)
• Black athletes must pick up the ball on graduation rates
• Black Male Student-Athletes and Racial Inequities in NCAA Division I College Sports
• College athlete reading study: Some play like adults, but have literacy of 5th-graders
• Federal guidelines address discipline in nation’s schools
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• U.S. Criticizes Zero-Tolerance Policies in Schools, from which I highlight:
  

  “We often talk about solving this problem as if it’s an easy problem to solve,” said James 

   What’s the Matter With Kansas’ Schools?
  
  Illustration By David Biskup. New York Times Once upon a time every state in the Union, unequivocally guaranteed a free public education in its Constitution, but that soon may end. Within the month we will know more. The Kansas Supreme Court is expected to decide what Governors […]
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